Dairy Business News
France’s Groups Lactalis, the world’s largest dairy maker, is expanding in Chicago after a previous $3.2 billion deal made in 2020 with Kraft Heinz Co.
Feed costs will continue to be the No. 1 expense. Jim Salfer, Extension dairy educator with the University of Minnesota, offers some best practices to help producers lower feed costs.
Louise Malecha wears her titles as a badge of honor—that of a farm mom, farm wife, nana, businesswoman and entrepreneur. With her newly released second book, Malecha can also add published author to her long resume.
It appears that chocolate milk’s days in schools across the country could be numbered. The reason behind the potential ban? A war on added sugars.
Recently on a Farm Journal Milk Business webinar, three dairy producers shared their journey back to the farm along with the challenges they’ve faced along the way.
As beef production falls, meatpackers will be looking to dairy producers for cattle
Kentucky-based feed and food additive company Alltech has acquired a majority interest in Agolin, a Swiss company specializing in sustainable animal nutrition.
Last year’s record milk price year fueled producers to strategically plan how to utilize the extra income from strong milk prices. Now many producers are wondering what has changed to wildly swing milk prices.
Ben Laine shares we would need a big demand surge to see a significant increase in prices. He also adds that June is likely to be the bottom of prices, although he remains cautious for the second half of 2023.
After a couple of years of shortages spurred by the pandemic, ear tags from Merck Animal Health are in full production and back up to pre-COVID production levels.
The younger consumers of today may not embrace meat consumption like previous generations, but they are more inclined to seek and pay for high quality. That’s good news for producers selling beef cross calves.
I can easily recall some of my best memories of growing up on a family farm with my late father. From playing a game of pickup before doing cattle work to working alongside with dad, the memories are plentiful.
What if you could accurately measure your silage pile inventory with a few clicks of a button? With today’s drone technology, you can.
Two things have had a huge impact on Jeff Corle’s life—music and dairy cows. After high school, Corle headed south to Nashville, to pursue his dream of working in the music industry.
For now, springers are holding their own and Holstein heifer calves actually posted healthy gains.
School milk remains an important part of the Class I market, especially as overall milk consumption declines.
A new bill could put 2% and whole milk back in schools.
The National Milk Producers Federation’s Board of Directors today unanimously voted to name Gregg Doud, a globally recognized agricultural leader, as its next president and CEO.
Adversity is a character test. From low milk prices, rising interest rates, weather and supply chain hiccups, farmers are used to dealing with adversity and things beyond their control. Our character is challenged daily.
NMPF President and CEO Jim Mulhern announced he will retire from his position at the end of this year, concluding a decade of service leading the organization and capping a 45-year career.
Prairie Farms kicked off Dairy Month in a big way by partnering with 30 Feeding America® food banks to donate 85 pallets of milk, which is over 346,000 milk servings.
On June 1, Hiland Dairy is kicking off World Milk Day and National Dairy Month by donating to 15 Feeding America® network food banks across a six-state area.
The ongoing milk price rollercoaster that seems to be on a downward track has once again forced a Dairy Margin Coverage payment to be issued in 2023. The DMC income over feed costs for April is $5.84/cwt.
It appears June Class III milk could be below $16.00 and back to the lowest level since August 2021.
The president and CEO of Tillamook County Creamery Association (TCCA), Patrick Criteser shares his career path, advice, lessons learned and more in a casual sit-down conversation.
Robots, sensors, connected devices, virtual reality and even artificial intelligence (AI) have become a daily presence in our hospitals. As agriculture is facing its own transformation what lessons can we learn?
In 2006, dairy producer Ken Smith and family purchased an old truck stop property near their family dairy farm and began an ice cream business. Moo Thru has grown in more ways than one.
Dairy producers have adjusted to uncertainties that face them such as rising feed costs, ongoing labor challenges and navigating a pandemic and its ripple effect. Three producers share how they tackle uncertainties.
The global dairy market could be navigating a bumpy road through the course of 2023.
Have you ever wondered why some topics, people, or plans resist change?